Lani Trock (b. 1984) is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice centers in harmonious world-building. To awaken the collective imagination and actualize a new operating system for society, she works with organic sculptural materials to cultivate gentle environments, and invites visitors to contemplate from their unique voice and vision, how they would imagine the world at peace. Engaging with art as a spiritual practice, honoring the studio & gallery as spaces of devotion, she builds ephemeral altars and invites collaborators to activate them in joyful co-creation. In communion with her site-specific, immersive installations, she facilitates group expressions of improvisational sound and movement techniques. Through these public programs, she invites participants to co-create the new earth – an alternative cultural paradigm that seeks to shift away from a capitalist logic of scarcity, commodification, and competition, towards equitable abundance, collaboration, and mutual benefit. Bridging physical and virtual modalities, her participatory artworks integrate the biomimetic intelligence of natural ecosystems with the collectivist principles underlying open-source software to imagine a symbiotic society, rooted in an ethos of care. Through research archives built to harness the power of collective intelligence, concepts such as regenerative stewardship, decentralized governance, cooperative economics, and other radical systems of exchange may be brought into tangible form, even if only temporarily, to plant a seed, and create a more empowered future for all. This way of seeing is grounded in the understanding that everything is alive, has spirit, and that together, we all coexist as an interconnected, symbiotic organism. In this interwoven worldview, all aspects are honored as sacred, and equally essential for their unique contribution to the whole. This holistic perspective creates an impetus to reorient our societal systems towards collective wellbeing. Here lives the central mission of Trock’s practice: to make art that touches spirit, transforms consciousness, and manifests peace and equality on earth.
Trock was born and raised in Hawai’i and has a BA in Philosophy from UC Santa Cruz. She has shown work at OCHI Projects, Praz-Delavallade, Jeffery Deitch with Nicodim, and the LA Municipal Art Gallery. She has been published in Autre Magazine, Murder Magazine and Plant Magick from The Library of Esoterica, Vol 4., published by Taschen Books. In 2021, she had a solo exhibition at Hansell Gallery during her year-long residency at The Philosophical Research Society in Los Angeles and participated in the Kernel Fellowship, a program for fellows to explore the intersection of web3 & public goods. She is a longtime resident of Los Angeles.
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LANI TROCK
b. 1984, Honolulu, HI
Works and lives in Los Angeles.
EDUCATION
2006 BA Philosophy, UC Santa Cruz
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
and so we blossom gently into the infinite garden, Hansell Gallery at The Philosophical Research Society, Los Angeles, CA. Oct-Dec 2021.
Trust in the You of Now, Space 1520, Los Angeles, CA. April, 2015.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Object Permanence, Edition 10, LA Design Weekend, Los Angeles, CA September 2025.
CARLA 10-year Anniversary Benefit Auction, Los Angeles, CA June 2025.
Venice Family Clinic Auction, Los Angeles, CA May 2025.
Corita Day 2024, The Philosophical Research Society, Los Angeles, CA November 2024.
Venice Family Clinic Auction, Los Angeles, CA May 2024.
Wish You Were Here, OCHI, Sun Valley, ID Dec 2022-Jan 2023.
Storm Before the Calm, Curated by Michael Slenske, Praz Delavallade, LA, CA Sept-Oct 2022.
TOTUM, A Show to Honor the Trees, Curated by Kyle DeWoody, Ojai & LA, CA, December 2021 & January 2022.
Hollywood Babylon; The Reinauguration of the Pleasure Dome, Autre, Nicodim Gallery & Jeffrey Deitch, Hollywood, CA, February 2020.
Holding Space, Big Pictures, Los Angeles, CA, November 2019.
Loitering is Delightful, LA Municipal Art Gallery, LA, CA, Oct 2019-Jan 2020.
Other Places Art Fair, O’Space, San Pedro, CA, March 2019.
BARBARELLA PSYCHADELLA, HILDE, Spring Break Art Fair, Los Angeles, CA, February 2019.
Still, Merchant Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, December 2018.
We Rise Task Force PR, Los Angeles, CA, May-June 2018.
The Unreal City, Installation Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, March-April 2018.
Into Action, Task Force PR, Los Angeles, CA, January 2018.
Somewhere I’ve Never Traveled, HILDE, Oakland, CA, December 2017.
Winter Art Fair, Art House LA, Los Angeles, CA, December 2017.
DBA, Big Pictures, Los Angeles, CA, October 2017.
Drone of Perseus, HILDE, Los Angeles, CA, October 2017.
Her Room, Junior High, Los Angeles, CA August, 2016.
Spatially Speaking, Tappan, Culver City, CA, February 2016.
PUBLIC PROGRAMS
earthdance, presented as part of Autumn Equinox at The Philosophical Research Society, September 2024.
earthdance, presented as part of The Earth Law Clinic at Tea at Shiloh’s. April 2024.
earthdance, presented as part of Plantstock at The Philosophical Research Society, April 2024.
the galactic wave, presented as part of Celestial Portal at The Philosophical Research Society, December 2023.
earthdance, presented as part of Wish You Were Here, Ochi Gallery, Sun Valley, ID, Dec 2022-Jan 2023.
tend to care, on the LA River, presented by Floating in collaboration with LA Nomadic Division, LA, CA, November 2022.
tend to care, Storm Before the Calm, Praz Delavallade, LA, CA, October 2022.
the galactic wave, and so we blossom gently into the infinite garden,The Philosophical Research Society, in collaboration with LA Nomadic Division, LA, CA, December 2021.
the bridge, and so we blossom gently into the infinite garden,The Philosophical Research Society, LA, CA, November 2021.
open dialogue, and so we blossom gently into the infinite garden,The Philosophical Research Society, LA, CA, November 2021.
tend to care, and so we blossom gently into the infinite garden,The Philosophical Research Society, LA, CA, November 2021.
free food, and so we blossom gently into the infinite garden,The Philosophical Research Society, LA, CA, November 2021.
oscc, and so we blossom gently into the infinite garden, The Philosophical Research Society, LA, CA, November 2021.
the galactic wave, Kinship Solstice, private residence, Dec 2020.
free food, The Philosophical Research Society, LA, CA, May 2020-ongoing.
the galactic wave, the unified field, Loitering is Delightful, LAMAG, LA, CA, Jan 2020.
the bridge, the unified field, Loitering is Delightful, LAMAG, LA, CA, Jan 2020.
free food, the unified field, Loitering is Delightful, LAMAG, LA, CA, Dec 2019.
oscc, the unified field, Loitering is Delightful, LAMAG, LA, CA, Oct 2019.
the galactic wave, O’Space, Other Places Art Fair, San Pedro, CA, March 2019.
the galactic wave, BARBARELLA PSYCHADELLA, HILDE, Spring Break Art Fair, Los Angeles, CA, Feb 2019.
free food, BARBARELLA PSYCHADELLA, HILDE, Spring Break Art Fair, Los Angeles, CA, Feb 2019.
walking meditation, We Rise, Task Force PR, Los Angeles, CA, May-June 2018.
free food, Somewhere I’ve Never Traveled, HILDE, Oakland, CA, December 2017.
free food, Winter Art Fair, Art House LA, Los Angeles, CA, December 2017.
free food, DBA, Big Pictures, Los Angeles, CA, October 2017.
artist salon, Drone of Perseus, HILDE, Los Angeles, CA, November 2017.
free food, Drone of Perseus, HILDE, Los Angeles, CA, October 2017.
artist salon, Spatially Speaking, Tappan, Culver City, CA, Feb 2016.
COMMISSIONS / PUBLICATIONS / RESIDENCIES
Plant Magick. The Library of Esoterica, Vol 4, Library of Esoterica, Sept 2022.
Kernel Fellowship, Fall of 2021.
and so we blossom gently into the infinite garden, essay for Autre Magazine, Biodiversity issue, Fall of 2021.
The Philosophical Research Society, artist-in-residence, Summer of 2021-22.
Murder Magazine, food/death issue, January 2021.
LA County Arts Commission, Fort Moore Memorial Time Capsule, July 2019.
Project Art Gala, Underground Museum, site-specific for “My Kid Could Do That” gala, Los Angeles, CA, April, 2018.
MAMA Projects, Chateau Marmont, site-specific for MAMA Projects, Los Angeles, CA, August, 2017.
St. Germaine, Houdini Mansion, Floral Sculptures for No One Art House dancers, Los Angeles, CA, August 2017.
Sanctuary, Social Study, Los Angeles, CA, April 2017.
Tappan Atelier, artist-in-residence, Jan-May 2017.
Phone Home, Secular Sabbath, Multiple locations, site-specific for Ambient Music Series, Atlanta, Big Sur & Los Angeles, 2016-17.
Intermix, Storefront installation & Print Edition, Hawaii, September, 2016.
Aesop, Storefront installations, Los Angeles & NYC, April, 2016.
The Work Magazine, issue 07, The Collaboration Issue, May 2015.
Flowers for the Moon, Artist-In-Residence, The Standard, Los Angeles, CA. April 2014.
PROJECTS
genre garden, https://www.genre.garden/ 2023
new earth, https://newearth.garden/ 2022
future/present, http://nationalpeaceservice.us/5d/future-present/ 2020
open source community choir, http://oscc.us/ 2018
national peace service, https://nps.us/ 2017
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